Warnings over 'fraudulent' Booking.com emails asking travelers to provide bank card details or risk having hotel bookings canceled after customers lose 'thousands of pounds'

Have you been targeted by this Booking.com “scam”? Email lettice.bromovsky@mailonline.co.uk

By Lettice Bromovsky

Published: 12:27 BST, October 25, 2023 | Updated: 2:16 p.m. BST, 25 October 2023

Booking.com customers are being warned to ignore 'fraudulent' emails asking them to confirm payment for their hotel by providing their bank card details or risk seeing their reservations cancelled.

Holidaymakers have revealed how they received emails emails sent by noreply@booking.com that threatened to cancel their upcoming stay unless payment was made within 12 hours.

Notifications of the questionable email also appeared in the company's app on mobile phones, it has emerged. Have you been targeted by this Booking.com “scam”? Email lettice.bromovsky@mailonline.co.uk

A TikTok user describes how she was scammed out of £2,000 after falling in love, while another said: 'I think I'm quite suspicious and know enough about these things, but this one fooled me. Other vloggers have recently issued similar warnings on social media.

Booking.com categorically denies being hacked and instead suggests that the posts were been sent as a result of email violations. systems of its partner hotels. The hotels deny that this could have happened on their end.